Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome

tandiond writes to tell us that in a recent blog posting, Mozilla CEO John Lily shared his thoughts on Google's new browser project, Chrome, and what that means for Mozilla. "It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here — their business is the web, and they've got clear opinions on how things should be, and smart people thinking about how to make things better. Chrome will be a browser optimized for the things that they see as important, and it'll be interesting to see how it evolves." Mozilla's Europe president, Tristan Nitot also chimed in during an interview with PCPro, stating that they don't view this as a direct attack on Firefox, even if it did catch them by surprise. "I'll take another example: just before Microsoft launched Vista, it invited us [to work with it] so that Firefox works better on Windows Vista. Because for it, Firefox being a top-tier application that was very successful - we now have 200 million users around the world - it could not afford to have Firefox run slowly on Vista. Therefore, it helped us improve Firefox for Vista. That's just the same for Google. It wants Firefox to perform well with its applications, that's for sure. Indeed, it even wants IE to perform well with Gmail and the rest. It's just that it has very limited control over this. That's why Google's been frustrated and it is launching this Chrome browser."

Comments

Even if it IS a competitor to FireFox, so what?

[blind biker]

If FireFox is any good, it can take a bit of competition, right? Now, if, for example the FireFox developers have an attack of idiocy and force on everyone a feature that is not necessarily loved by everyone (like, say, the stupidbar) then there might be some people switching from FireFox to Chrome.

But I am sure FireFox wouldn't do such a silly thing. At any rate, there's now Chrome to make sure they won't.